Genesis 21:21

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While living in the wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

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  • Gen 24:3-4 : 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living. 4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
  • Gen 27:46-28:2 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, 'I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these women from the land, what good is my life to me?' 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, saying, 'Do not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.' 2 Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
  • Num 10:12 : 12 Then the Israelites set out on their journeys from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
  • Num 12:16 : 16 Afterward, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
  • Num 13:3 : 3 So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the LORD’s command. All of them were men who were leaders of the Israelites.
  • Num 13:26 : 26 They came back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire assembly of the Israelites at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Paran. There they reported to them and showed them the fruit of the land.
  • Judg 14:2 : 2 He returned and told his father and mother, 'I have seen a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. Now get her for me as a wife.'
  • 1 Sam 25:1 : 1 Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah, and David went down to the wilderness of Paran.
  • 1 Cor 7:38 : 38 So then, the one who marries the virgin does right, but the one who does not marry her does better.

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    20God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

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    3After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, and gave her to Abram as a wife.

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    12Besides, she really is my sister—the daughter of my father though not of my mother—and she became my wife.

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    1Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

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    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

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    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

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